At the beginning of the story, mother Rose took her four children (older brother Jack, second brother Billy, younger sister Jane, and younger brother Sam) into her childhood house, but they seemed to carry a huge secret. The children's faces are full of anxiety and fear. In the room, Mother Rose drew a line with her feet on the dusty floor, and said to the children: "Cross that line and there will be no more memories. Our story begins." It seems that the past is a nightmare. It still makes them palpitations.
Then they spent a happy summer. They also met Ellie, a girl who lives on the opposite mountain, and became friends. But the beautiful summer will eventually pass, like the tranquility before the storm, what will be waiting for them next?
First, his mother died of illness. Before his death, his mother called his eldest brother Jack, gave him a mysterious box, and told Jack to protect his younger brothers and sisters and not to separate them. The children buried their mother with great grief.
After the mother's death, the four siblings lived a peaceful life. One day, when Jane was arranging flowers by the window, she heard a loud noise—a hole was broken in the window. Jane walked to the window and found in horror that there was a man with a gun standing in the woods opposite. She hysterically called Jack for help. At this point in the story, their father has not appeared. Where is their father? Who is that man? Why did they have such a huge fear of this man? What kind of story is behind the mysterious box? All kinds of doubts are confusing.
Then, the lens is switched. Little Sam is picking flowers in the garden, and the four brothers and sisters seem to have turned from danger to peace and live together peacefully as before. But there are some small differences: the mirrors in the room are all covered with cloth, a mildew spot appears on the ceiling, Jack has a scar on his forehead, and the attic door is made of bricks. Days are ordinary, and the family earns a meager income from making pies, but soon the crisis reappears. The house they live in needs to pay a $200 transfer fee and be signed by the mother on the transfer contract, so that they can live in the house left by the mother legally. In order to live together, the desperate siblings decided to open the mysterious box left by their mother and forge her mother's signature. It turned out that there was a large sum of pounds in the box. However, the strange thing is: the box is in a cave, and there is a dagger not far from the box. After paying the rent transfer fee, the crisis was resolved and everything seemed to be calm again. But strange things happen occasionally in a peaceful life. The four brothers and sisters felt the presence of ghosts in the house from time to time. Jack found a pair of walking feet in the attic through the hole in the ceiling, and Jane felt that there was one in the attic while feeding the raccoon in the attic through the hole in the ceiling. Hands are holding her. This series of strange events made Jack's mental breakdown completely, so Jane decided to ask Allie to help Jack, and she gave Jack's family diary to Allie.
Before Ellie got the notepad, another line of the story was also going on. Jack and Ellie are in love with each other, which arouses the jealousy of the lawyer Tom, who handles the transfer of the house for Jack's family and at the same time admires Ellie. So Tom showed Ellie the newspaper about Jack's father, exposing the unbearable past of Jack's family. It turns out that Jack's father was a cruel demon: Robbery, murder, and torture of his daughter. In the court, Jack and Jane were accused in court and imprisoned. At the same time, there is another important news in the newspaper: Jack's father has escaped from prison. Then, Tom accidentally discovered that the signature of Jack's house transfer contract was a counterfeit and newspaper news that Jack's father had robbed him of £10,000. At this time, he urgently needed a sum of money to help his career. Reminiscing that the house transfer fee Jack paid him was also pounds sterling, Tom suddenly realized that the ten thousand pounds was in Jack's hands. So he falsified Jack's signature to blackmail the money in Jack's hand, and agreed to come to Jack's house the next day to withdraw the money. When the next day arrived, Tom came to Jack's house, but found that the room was empty, and the attic door was sealed with bricks. Suspicious, he smashed the attic door with a sledgehammer. On the other side, Ellie, who had finished reading Jack's family notebook, also hurried to Jack's house. The clues of the two stories finally come together, and the mystery is finally about to be solved.
It turned out that Jack’s father was a cruel demon. He robbed, murdered, and abused his daughter. After being arrested, Jack and Jane testified against his father’s crimes in court. The father finally went to jail. This also led to his father’s hatred of the four siblings. . At the same time, as a precaution, the mother hid the 10,000 pounds robbed by her father and lied in court for this. In order to escape this painful past and his father, the mother brought her children from England to the United States and lived in her childhood home. Soon after his mother died, his father escaped from prison and found their residence. The man who shot Jack's glass with a gun is Jack's demon father. In order to protect the younger brothers and sisters, Jack brought the box to negotiate with his father. Before leaving, he locked the younger brothers and sisters in a relatively safe attic. Jack followed his father through the woods to the cave and gave him the box. However, his father wanted more than just the box. After he got the box, he wanted to put Jack to death. Falling in the cave, his father pushed Jack down the cliff next to the cave. Jack was hit by the rock on his head and stunned. This is why the box and dagger appeared in the cave inexplicably, and the origin of the scar that suddenly appeared on Jack's head. Then the father entered the house where the four siblings lived and climbed from the chimney to the attic. He found the three siblings and killed them one by one, while he was also trapped in the attic. It was too late when Jack woke up and returned home. The unloved Jack wanted to take up the gun to end his life, but at the moment before pulling the trigger, he developed a split personality, and began to live alone with the split personality of the living brothers and sisters. After that, Jack built all the mirrors in the house, trying to interrupt the connection with reality, forget the heavy and sad past, and blocked the attic door with bricks, sealed the chimney, and wanted to suffocate his father. However, the father in the attic survived on the rain leaking from the chimney and the dead animals. The weird mildew stains on the ceiling are actually the corpses of the three brothers and sisters. The ghosts in the room, the feet and hands in the attic are all because the father was sealed in the attic.
At the end of the story, Ellie followed the traces of smashing the wall into the attic and found the dying Tom and Jack's stubborn father who had been attacked by Jack's father. In Ellie's cry for help, Jack bravely picked up the gun and killed the demon father who made him live in hell. This time, it was finally not too late. Allie took Jack to see the doctor. The doctor told Allie that Jack was suffering from split personality and prescribed medicine to Jack. After taking the medicine, the personality of Billy, Jane and Sam that Jack split up will disappear. However, in order for Jack to be with his beloved brothers and sisters forever, Ellie did not let Jack take medicine, but stayed quietly by his side, accompanied and took care of him. Jack is holding a group photo of the four brothers and sisters, smiling on the frame, and the film ends.
This film is a suspenseful film, but there is a pulse of warmth flowing under the terrifying appearance. Here, we can see the darkest side of human nature: an unsentimental murderous mad father, not only for money to kill, even indiscriminately, but even his own children have the heart to do it without hesitation; but we can also See the best side of human nature: the mutual help between family members and the selfless guardianship between lovers. These beautiful feelings finally defeated the devil, dispelled the darkness, and surpassed all worldly value judgments. Everyone has the instinct to yearn for beauty, but the evil of human nature is also an objective fact. It is precisely with the struggle between good and evil that beauty and goodness become precious and moving, and the ability to love and be loved is the best A weapon against evil, as long as there is love, all pains will gradually heal. I believe that Jack will come out of the pain and live a happy and peaceful life with Ellie!
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